On Friday, an unidentified group of terrorists threw a grenade at Barari Pora Chowk in Srinagar, as reported by ANI.

However, that grenade did not explode. Well, the reason is that it
was 'Made in China', a label which brings along a dubious reputation
of being poor quality.

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After the grenade which was hurled at a Central Reserve Police
Force party failed to go off, the bomb disposal squad was summoned
for diffusing it.

This is not the first case of a grenade used by Kashmiri militants
not exploding. A day before this incident, terrorists had lobbed a
grenade at a police station in Shopian which too turned out to be a
dud. An FIR was also lodged in this regard.

On August 7 this year, during the Machhil encounter, the Indian
Army had recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the
encounter site which included Chinese and Pakistani grenades. Five
militants had been killed in the encounter by the Indian Army while
foiling a major attempt of infiltration.

In the meanwhile, very much on expected lines with Diwali just
around the corner, although the grenade failed to go off, Twitter has
been exploding with hilarious tweets taking a dig at the Pakistanis
for using cheap quality grenades of Chinese make.

In December 2016, a news report had said that a Chinese man from
Shaanxi province had been using a Chinese Type 67 defence hand
grenade for cracking walnuts for almost quarter of a century, not
knowing what it really was. The man claimed that he had been given
the grenade by his friend in the early 1980s which he kept using for
cracking walnuts for 25 years. When he later discovered that his
nutcracker was actually a grenade, he surrendered it in a local
police station. The man was let off by the authorities without being
penalized.

After hearing this news, Samsung must be cursing the Chinese even
more for supplying them faulty batteries for their Note 7 phones
which made the devices explode. It seems China has got it all wrong,
while their phone batteries which aren't supposed to explode, do; the
grenades which are expected to explode, don't!